The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-05
GETTYSBURG SURVIVORS.
THE BOYS IN BLUE AND GRAY KEEP
UP THEIR FRATERNIzATION.

Mrs. Pickett Given an Ovation by the
Heroes of Both Sides-The Confeder-
ates Drawn up in Line as They Were
When They Made the Famous
Charge.
GETTYSBURG, PA, July AUST as the
clock in the tower of the county court
house last night sounded the first stroke of
-, the midnight stiffness was broken by the
strains from buglc of "Way Down Upon
the Suwanee River" Scarcely had its
notes died away when the members of the
Philadelphia brigade and Pickett's division
began the celebration of the glorious Fourth.
With the booming of cannon on East Gene
terry Hill, and the roar of fireworks in town,
pandemonium reigned for an hour and a
half No such noise has disturbed this little
village since the three memorable days of
1863.
A PRESENT FOR MRS. PICKETT.
This morning at z O'clock the members of
Pickett's Division proceeded to the court
house and were called to order by Colonel
Ayiett. Some one proposed that every
member of the Division present should give
% cents toward paying the expense which
Mrs. Pickett incurred on this visit. The
proposition was accepted with cheers and
the way money ratified on the secretarys
desk was sufficient proof of the esteem in
which Mrs. Pickett is held by the Division.
RESOLUTIONS OF THANKS.
Resolutions were then adopted thanking
the Philadelphia brigade for the hospitable
manner in which they had treated them,
the town authorities for the way they had
received them, their own officials for the
trouble and time they had given to bring
ing about this reunion, and all soldiers for
their fraternal greeting. The meeting then
adjourned, and outside the building they
joined in procession with the Philadelphia
brigade, with each Pickett man linking
arms with Philadelphian. The line pro
ceeded to the Eagle Hotel, where the party
took carriages and started over the battle
field. Fully 100 carriages were in the line
MRS. PICKETT's RECEPTION.
Mrs. Pickett held reception on the very
ground over which her husbands command
charged and within a few yards of the
woods under whose cover he, twenty years
before, had formed his division. Pickett's
men were first formed in line and one by
one advanced and were introduced to the
wife of their old commander by Col Clop-
ton, of Richmond, Va, by name, stating
their regiment and rank. She had a word
for all and all had a word for her The
Philadelphia Brigade was next presented
Her son, George Pickett, stood at her side,
and when she dropped a hand it was at once
grasped by him.
FORMING THE OLD LINE.
The people then moved to the highest
ground, and Col. Bacheld r formed the sur
vivors of Kemper's, Garnett's and Armi-
stead's brigade of Picketts division in the
order they had been when the charge began
and asked the commander of each regiment
to step forward to point the position his
command occupied. Mrs. Pickett was
the the field. She had gathered
some daisies and clover heads. A member
of the brigade asked her for a few. She
gave them to him with smile, and one by
one they We're given away to be treasured as
mementoes. Her autograph was also eagerly
sought for, and she refused no one.
ALL MORE THAN PLEASED.
To say that Pickett's men are
pleased would be putting it lightly.
They are delighted with every
thing and everybody. In the words
of Confederate soldier: "We are pleased
all to pieces, but Cowan this time has cap
tured body and SOUL"
Among the incidents of the reunion which
recall the battle is a coincidence by which
the Hibernia Rifles, the handsome escort Of
the Philadelphia brigade, have worn the
title of the Band Box" soldiers. For the
past two days the Hibernians have found
the spacious steps Of the College church so
delightfully."- cool and shady that they have
spent most of their time sitting there.
TwENTY-FoUR YEARS AGO
just before the battle, twenty-folr years
ago. company of young students from
Pennsylvania College had themselves mus
tered in as home guards and went forth
valiantly to repel the bold invader Some
of Early's dusty and ragged veterans
scooped in the whole command, marched the
unhappy recruits to the same steps, kept
them sitting there all day, continually de
riding them with remarks something like
the following: Don't they look pretty in
their nice new uniforms" Guess they must
have been raised in handbook etc.
CHEERS FOR YANKEE DOODLE"
While the band was playing medley of
Confederate and Union war songs as the
veterans were starting on their ride over
stantly the Rebel yell and Union cheers
showed that the war song of their fathers,
above all Others, had touched a sympathetic
chord in the breasts of both.
This evening religious service was held.
In the absence Of the chaplain, Rev. j. K.
Demorest was asked TO speak before the
gathering, of Plckett's men mainly, in the
court mouse. ne spOl.c " tueIu On Jne BID
ject of the day, and how n1ucn the liberty
and hrotherly feeling characteristic of our
land should endear it TO all its citizens.
MRS PIcKErT's FAREWELL.
This evening Mrs. Pickett held a reception
at Pckett's division headquarters, and for
an hour shook the hand of every one pre-
sented TO her. Immediately after the recep-
ton she was serenaded by the Grand Army
of the Republic Band. The Pickett menthen
adjourned to the garden Of the house where
the Sixty-ninth Pennsylvania men we're
Offering was then the order until late in the
night. Cowan's Battery andEthe Wheeler
Rifles departed at O'Clock this evening,
and some Of the Philadelphia brigade also
left for their homes Pickett's division Will
leave at O'Clock in the morning, and the
remaining Phiadelphians will leave about
0 o'clock in the morning.